HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A person with a violent legal historical past is at massive after being mistakenly launched from the Harris County Jail, the Harris County Sheriff’s Workplace confirms.
Nicholas Guerra, 27, was launched on a $5,000 bond Friday. It is the identical day he was set to start serving his sentence for stealing a pair of pruning shears from a Dwelling Depot.
The sheriff’s workplace stated jail workers launched him on account of paperwork displaying he had posted bond, apparently not realizing he had additionally been sentenced within the case.
“His lawyer is cooperating with us and is making preparations for the defendant to come back serve the remaining few days on his county jail sentence,” the sheriff’s workplace stated in a written assertion.
Courtroom information present Guerra is at the moment on probation for repeatedly violating a protecting order stemming from a July 2024 assault case.
His then-pregnant spouse informed police he attacked her with a cup and repeatedly confirmed as much as their Midtown dwelling in violation of a decide’s order.
Data present he violated the protecting order on a number of events, together with by breaking into the sufferer’s dwelling, sleeping in her room whereas she was out, and slamming her to the bottom.
In August 2024, he was given three years’ deferred adjudication, however the violations continued.
In November 2024, he was finally sentenced to 150 days in jail whereas his deferred adjudication settlement remained intact.
Within the theft case, he was initially sentenced to 48 days with credit score for 5 days served.
However the sheriff’s workplace stated he would have served far much less time in follow on account of an association by which inmates can get three days’ credit score for every day served.
Even so, Guerra nonetheless had days left on his sentence when he was launched.
In February, a person awaiting trial on a capital homicide cost was launched from the jail after jailers mistook him for an additional inmate with the identical identify.
In 2023, a person convicted of capturing his spouse was mistakenly launched whereas ready to be transferred to jail. The sheriff’s workplace blamed it on a clerical error.
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